42 quick glimpses under the hood of Halo's AI
Yeah, I know, I know…Halo is to Ultima what apples are to flamethrowers, which is to say that the two series couldn’t really be more different or unrelated. I get that, I grant that,...
Tagged: Ultima
Restored: Dragon Engine
This project was supposed to be a fairly straightforward, Ultima 5-inspired 2D engine which employed the use of various Ultima conventions. However, Litmus Dragon stopped work on it some years ago, though not before...
Awesome: Lair of the Shadow Broker trailer
This is, I submit, what downloadable content (DLC) should be all about: Being an Ultima fan, I’ve always measured add-on content — DLC included — against the metric established by the two expansions to...
Return to the Serpent Isle character creation video
The busy folks of Team Return have managed to get an Ultima-like character creation system working in Neverwinter Nights 2, and have even posted a video of their system in action: They have also...
Return to the Serpent Isle August Update: Stop, thief!
Sergorn Dragon’s increasingly ambitious Ultima project (which I’m also working on) has posted its latest monthly update, and announces the development or updating of several game system scripts that members of the team have...
Updated: The Dark Core for IE8
Thanks to the efforts of Infinitron Dragon, A New Breed of Dragon’s Ultima: The Dark Core is now compatible with modern web browsers (or, at least, with Internet Explorer 8 — other browsers are...
The epic Epic Mickey bundle
My apologies for the title; the pun was irresistible. Anyhow, it looks like former Ultima developer Warren Spector’s upcoming game for the Nintendo Wii, Disney’s Epic Mickey, is getting the ol’ Collector’s Edition treatment....
Restored: The Dark Core
Michael Hilborn — AKA A New Breed of Dragon — is a name well known to those who have played through (or who followed the development of) Lazarus. But before there was Lazarus, there...
Quoth Warren Spector: most game devs are "still making cartoons"
The former Ultima developer is evidently a bit down on the approach many big-name game developers are taking these days: …one of his main problems with games’ stories is their tendency to be dude-centric...
Added: Ultimoid 9.75
This is a browser-based parody of the early Ultima games, and looks very much like them, though it purports to be set in Britannia post-Ultima 9. So…check thou it out!
Warren Spector has him some Disney fever
The former Ultima developer and Epic Mickey mastermind is, apparently, very interested in doing something with the Duck Tales franchise next: In a new interview with Industry Gamers, he now says that, “A day...
